NBA pursues ownership groups for Europe basketball league

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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver speaks during a news conference following a meeting of the NBA’s board of governors at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, July 15, 2025. Chase Stevens | Las Vegas Review-journal | Getty Images The NBA is looking to Europe for its next stage of growth. The league announced on […]


Europe at ‘fork in the road’ between AI competition and climate

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Europe stands at a crossroads: compete meaningfully in the AI race or stick to its world-leading climate goals.  “It’s like a fork in the road moment for Europe,” Wedbush Securities’ Dan Ives told CNBC. The bloc can either “play in the future” or risk “missing a big part of this technology wave.” The dilemma is compounded […]


Meta faces Europe antitrust investigation over WhatsApp AI policy

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Meta has been hit with an EU antitrust investigation over its use of AI features in WhatsApp, as the European bloc continues to ramp up challenges to US big tech giants. The probe will examine whether Meta’s new policy on allowing AI providers’ access to WhatsApp may breach EU competition rules, Brussels said in a […]


Japanese investors turn to Europe in lieu of own ecosystem

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Huge swathes of cash are flowing from Japan to European tech startups as risk-averse investors favor a more mature entrepreneurial ecosystem, helping to scale the continent’s booming deep tech cluster. While the European startup and venture capital ecosystem has long operated in the shadow of Silicon Valley, it has become fertile ground for Japanese corporates, […]


Europe Asia postal services to halt shipments to the US at end of Trump de minimums exemption

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Postal services in Europe and around the world plan to halt shipping merchandise to the US as the Trump administration’s end of the de minimus tariff exemption goes into effect. The “de minimus” exemption allowed internation carriers to ship goods valued under $800 to the US without paying any duties. The White House announced the end of […]


Super Micro to ramp up investment in Europe to capitalize on AI demand

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CEO of Supermicro Charles Liang speaks during the Reuters NEXT conference in New York City, U.S., December 10, 2024.  Mike Segar | Reuters PARIS — Super Micro plans to increase its investment in Europe, including ramping up manufacturing of its AI servers in the region, CEO Charles Liang told CNBC in an interview that aired […]


What I learned following Jensen Huang around Europe

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Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., left, and Emmanuel Macron, France’s president at the 2025 VivaTech conference in Paris, France, on Wednesday, June 11, 2025. Nathan Laine | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nvidia boss Jensen Huang has been on a tour of Europe this week, bringing excitement and intrigue to everywhere […]


As Temu, Shein pivot to Europe, they again meet regulatory scrutiny

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U.S. consumer spending on Temu fell about 36% in May compared to a year earlier, while it fell 13% over the same period on Shein, according to trend data from Consumer Edge. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Temu and Shein are pivoting to Europe as their business in the U.S. takes a major hit […]


Trump Shuns Europe, and Its Defense Industry Tries to Capitalize

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Fresh off the assembly line, the two Eurofighter jets screamed down Turin’s runway at 186 miles per hour before lifting off against the snow-capped Alps. Their destination was Kuwait, a six-hour flight away. The Kuwaiti military is the first foreign customer to buy the supersonic jets from Leonardo, the Italian defense contractor that manufactures the […]


Trump’s Tariffs on Autos Would Hit Europe Hard

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After months of threats, the White House unveiled plans on Wednesday to impose tariffs on automobiles imported to the United States, a plan that is likely to hit car companies across the European Union hard. The move — which would place a 25 percent tariff on all cars not built in the United States — […]